Anyone else really like music from the 80's?

I've been on an 80's kick lately. Oingo Boingo, Shriekback, Simple Minds, Talking Heads, Talk Talk, Tears for Fears, Thomas Dolby.. maybe I just grew up on it, but I really like some of it. I can't be the only one.

It's kind of weird... growing up I always hated the 80's. Everything about it, the style, the cheesiness and especially the music. Never liked any bands, songs, albums... nothing. But in the past couple years alot of it has really started growing on me. The Cure, early U2, The Smiths, The Police, The Pixies.... does Joy Division count?

Their 2nd, called "The House Of Love" (like their first) but often referred to as "the butterfly album" due to its cover and so as not to confuse it with their debut. A gorgeous masterpiece, tho not an "80s release as it came out in 1990.

Spirit of Eden was released in 88 and is awesome too, to be fair. Actually, even when their synthpop was way more over the standard, to be fair. Talk Talk is one of the best examples of competent musicianship, and Laughing Stock is still a mindblowing album.

LOVE 80s music, all the one hit wonders. A couple of years ago I went to see When in Rome perform with Real Life, A Flock of Seagulls and Dramarama at the House of Blues in LA. I had a ton of vinyl, cassettes, eventually CDs... I would haul this around every time I moved in the 90s. Now, every single one of those songs resides on a memory chip the size of my pinky nail.

The 80's was the golden age of synthesizers and experimentation with new kinds of instrumentation. I was a (small town) rock star keyboardist and guitarist in the 80's and played a lot of that stuff. It was fun and inventive and I'll always have a soft spot for it.

I grew up on new wave. The 80s had some great bands from a lot of other genres: LA punk, Brit-wave, death rock, nerd rock, post punk, industrial, experimental, dark ambient, early grunge, heavy metal, so on and so forth. I'm sure there is a limit to how long comments can be so I won't even try to list bands.

I grew up in the 80's and the one thing that drove me crazy was how commercialized things seemed to get near the end of the decade. Of course I was high school aged and didn't have shit worth of experience to judge things. Having lived through the 90's and the 00's I wonder what I was complaining about.

To me this is where the 80's shined. There was some really innovative stuff going on from 86-89 but it was being eclipsed by the heavily commercialized "top 40" pop bracket. (I guess that's been true forever.)

That said, I still like some stuff that hit the top 40 on the radio in the 80's. The one song that still brings me back is "I Melt With You" by Modern English.

I grew up in the '90s but was obsessed with '80s music. Most of my friends didn't know any of the music I'd listen to. I still love it and always wished I could have seen some of the bands perform live!

I was in High School in the 80's. The worst fucking music ever made. Every bit of it dated and cheezeball. I was trapped in a part of the country where you could only get top 40 radio, Casey Casem (spelling?) every fucking weekend. Radio stations rotating the best 10 songs ALL FUCKING DAY LONG. The shit that makes up "80's" music was all selected by some coked-up suit that didn't know shit about music, paid to be put on air, and ground into your subconscious.

There was not internet, no file sharing unless you count tape trading (yes, cassette tapes), no alternative. You consumed this mass produces shit, or you listen to nothing.

The worst thing about the whole scene,... all my peers love it! Stupid brainwashed fucks, they didn't know any better.